The Next "Napoleon Dynamite"?
Category: Movies...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 at 06:41 PM [GMT-6]

The Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern reviewed Eagle vs. Shark last Friday and liked it a lot.

The trailer seems to support Morgenstern's recommendation. Gotta love those Kiwi accents, too (right, Rachel?).

Unfortunately, as it doesn't involve a $100 million/per hour running time budget and 8,000 CGI artists*, it likely won't appear in Midland except in individual mailboxes courtesy of NetFlix. Nothing seems to anathematize a film in the eyes of local programmers quite like the combination of the adjectives "quirky" and "foreign."

*Not that's there's inherently anything wrong with such films. But do they always merit four screens at a time? I think not.

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Too right Eric!

Posted by: Rach at June 18, 2007 08:42 PM

if you haven't, you need to search you tube for "flight of the conchords", the comedy folk band the male lead plays in; they're hilarious. also, get on itunes and you can download the first full episode of their new hbo show via a podcast. i'm looking forward to eagle vs. shark, and luckily, in austin we have a theatre that caters solely to movies like this. :-)

Posted by: kyle at June 18, 2007 10:32 PM

Kyle, I saw an ad for "Conchords" in People Magazine (don't ask) this morning. It's getting hyped pretty heavily. I'll check out the podcast.

Posted by: Eric at June 19, 2007 03:35 PM
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